La Pasion Segun San Marcos

Osvaldo Golijov, MarÃ�Âa Guinand, Orquesta La PasiÃ�Â³n, Schola Cantorum de Caracas, Lucianba Souza, Reynaldo Gonzales Fernandes La Pasion Segun San Marcos

Osvaldo Golijov
MarÃa Guinand
Orquesta La PasiÃ³n
Schola Cantorum de Caracas
Lucianba Souza
Reynaldo Gonzales Fernandes
Label: Hanssler Classics
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Audio CD
Release date:28th August 2001

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Track Listing

1. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: VisiÃ³n: Bautismo en la Cruz
2. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Danza del Pescador Pescado
3. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Primer Anuncio
4. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Segundo Anuncio
5. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Tercero Annuncio En Fiesta No
6. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Dos DÃas
7. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: UnciÃ³n en Betania
8. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Â¿Por quÃ©?
9. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: OraciÃ³n LucumÃ
10. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: El Primer DÃa
11. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Judas; El Cordero Pascual
12. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Quisera Yo Renegar
13. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: EucaristÃa
14. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Demos Gracias
15. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: En el Monte de los Olivos
16. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Cara a Cara
17. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: En GetsemanÃ
18. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: AgonÃa
19. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Arresto
20. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Danza de la SÃ¡bana Blanca
21. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Ante CaifÃ¡s
22. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Soy Yo (ConfesiÃ³n)
23. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Escarnio y NegaciÃ³n
24. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Desgarro de la TÃºnica
25. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: LÃºa descolorida
26. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Amanecer: Ante Pilato
27. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Silencio
28. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: SentencÃa
29. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Comparsa
30. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Danza de la SÃ¡bana Porpura-Manto Sagrado
31. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: CrucifixiÃ³n
32. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Muerte
33. La PasiÃ³n segÃºn San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), for chorus & orchestra: Kaddish

Album Description

Osvaldo Golijov was born on December 5, 1960, in La Plata, Argentina, and now lives in Newton, Massachusetts. The score is dedicated "To the miracle of faith in Latin America, that lives through MarÃa Guinand and the Schola Cantorum de Caracas." Osvaldo Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, a provincial capital of half a million people about fifty kilometers from Buenos Aires in officially Catholic Argentina. While on a fellowship to the Tanglewood Festival, Golijov became acquainted personally with the Kronos Quartet, who performed there in 1990 and 1992. This relationship became a central one to GolijovÂ§s ever-increasing profile as a composer. Golijov wrote KÂ§vakarat, which the quartet later recorded, for Kronos and cantor Misha Alexandrovich, and in 1997 Kronos and clarinetist David Krakauer recorded GolijovÂ§s Klezmer-accented The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. When approaching the composer with the commission, Rilling encouraged Golijov draw upon his own experienceâas a Jew living in an officially Catholic country; as an artist with an interest in a broadly eclectic range of style and media; as a Spanish-speaking composer of Eastern European parents, now living in the United States, and so onâin discovering a personal perspective on the twice-told (or rather four-times-told) story. The text of La PasiÃ³n SegÃºn San Marcos is composed of portions of The Gospel According to Mark, the Old TestamentÂ§s Psalms and Lamentations, and Spanish poetry. Golijov matches the pared-down, vox populi directness of St. MarkÂ§s account in the directness of his musical idiom, particularly in his appropriation of popular Latin American folk and dance music. He uses these forms as models for individual numbers with the larger work, which itself shares much in common with the structures of the Passions of Bach. From the Steve Reichian pulsations of the opening bars, to the sultry rhythms accompanying JesusÂ§ betrayal to the other-worldly setting of the Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the dead) with which the work concludes, GolijovÂ§s score is vibrant with energy, exoticism and PASSION! ?This is the ONLY composer authorized recording with the original ensemble!?

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Osvaldo Golijov is an inspired Argentinean-Jewish composer, and his St. Mark Passion, an 86-minute, in-your-face work--drawing from African American, South American, Cuban, European, and Jewish music--is an exciting, vibrant, percussion-filled experience with the rhythmic thrust of Carl Orff. The combination of folk and traditional instruments forms a highly original whole, and his retelling of the Passion story packs an emotional as well as musical wallop. This big, "maximist" work is not lacking in tender moments, however. An aria describing Christ's agony, for instance, is as touching and somber as anything textually similar in Bach's Passions. Most of the work here is done by the chorus, but the solo voices, which are uncategorizable (i.e., not operatic, not pop, not folk--just good voices), are impressive and add to the unique flavor of this singular work. The performance was live, not studio-recorded, and the sense of occasion adds to the success of the set. Recommended for the curious and, well, passionate. --Robert Levine